Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Why Your Vegetarian Client Can’t Lose Weight!

It seems to make sense
that someone who has been on a vegan diet might find it easier to lose weight
than his or her carnivorous friends, but actually the opposite is true for many
people.Although it is true that a
plant-based diet is perceived as healthy, it is only as healthy as the environment
in which the plants were grown. Your client may not be aware of the
cancer-causing issues created by eating fruit and vegetables grown in mineral
depleted soils, pesticide treated fields and in hot houses over stimulated with
hormones that accelerate their growth.Your vegetarian client may also not be aware that very few plants count
as a “whole food” and that almost 99% of plants available to eat on this planet
do not have full amino acid profile.A
full amino acid profile is needed for human bodies to manufacture protein and
that why food combining is recommended for anyone that does not have meat,
cheese or any other type of food with a full amino acid profile in their diet.

Some Vegans Are Insulin Resistant

This is not to say that
“clean eating” or vegan living is bad for your client. It just means that you
should be fully versed in teaching your clients in how to combine grains,
legumes and vegetables to create a full protein so that their body requires fewer
carbohydrates to run efficiently. Even vegan-based carbohydrates can become
fat, especially if your client is insulin-resistant and does not process
starches properly.Starches convert to
carbohydrates that are unused by the insulin resistant body and the result Is
weight gain.

Watch Out for Health Foods

Many vegetarian and
vegan health foods actually contain a great deal of sodium and sugar that can
raise blood pressure and blood sugar levels. If you look at the labels of many
fat-free products you will see that added flavour and “mouth feel” usually
provided by animal fats and dairy products has been replaced by sugar, sodium
and even chemical flavourings.

Even if the source of
the fat in the product is some kind of oil, it is not always healthy oil.Keep in mind that an oil is a fat and that
eating a product glutted with oil in the name of improving the taste and
texture of a vegetarian product still adds hundreds of calories to your daily
diet and this can cause your cosmetic procedures such as Mesotherapy or HCG
injections to have less impact.

It’s About Consuming Whole Foods

Advise your client to
stay away from pre-packaged vegetarian foods and to consume “whole foods.”Produce must be organic if available, washed
before eaten (just in case of bacterial or pesticide contamination during
transport).Whole foods are raw whole
vegetables, whole grains and fermented foods. Advise the to stay away from
anything refined, especially refined flour and refined sugar.

Junk Food Vegetarians

Junk food is widely
available for vegetarians. That is why so many practitioners find themselves
treating heavy non meat-eaters. For many vegetarians, loading up on pasta and
pastries is justifiable because “at least I am not eating meat!”

Even though they aren’t
consuming meat these junk food vegans are consuming foods that are problematic
for them in many ways and that might even cause them to gain weight.

You can still be a vegan
and be fat and soft because you have not been exercising. Exercise in
combination with the right diet is crucial as well, or you will simply be an
overweight vegetarian.

The point is that
keeping weight off is not a gimmick nor is it ever going to be the result of
simply staying off of meat or dairy. It has to be a long-term life style
choice that includes exercise and eating.

Vegans
are quite prone to the psychological lows that come with gaining weight so you
must offer them lots of encouragement. They often blame their own bodies when
it seems that “even the vegan diet” is not working. The next thing you know
they are back in a vicious cycle of eating junk food in order to self-medicate
for feelings of inferiority brought on by the condition of obesity itself!

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